Iran’s retaliatory strikes kill at least 3 after Israeli attacks on nuclear program, military

Iran launched strikes of reprisals on Israel on Saturday morning, killing at least three people and injuring dozens, after a series of puffed Israeli attacks against the heart of the Iranian nuclear program and its armed forces.

The assault of Israel used war planes, as well as drones introduced smuggling into the country in advance to attack key installations and kill the best generals and scientists.

Israel said that the dam was necessary before Iran approaches the construction of an atomic weapon, although experts and the US government have evaluated that Tehran did not actively work on such a weapon before strikes. He also launched talks between the United States and Iran on an atomic agreement in the days of disarray a few before the two parties met on Sunday.

Israel has used war planes, as well as drones smuggled in the country in advance, according to officials, to attack key facilities and kill the best generals and scientists. Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations said 78 people were killed and more than 320 injured in the attacks.

Iran retaliated by launching waves of ballistic drones and missiles in Israel, where the explosions lit the night sky on Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shaken the buildings below. The Israeli army has urged civilians, already shaken by 20 months of war launched by the October 7 attacks in Hamas, to go to the shelter for hours.

Israel and Iran have said that their attacks would continue, increasing the prospect of another prolonged conflict in the Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that his goal was to eliminate any Iranian threat to Israel, but also urged the Iranians to present their leaders. Israel would host the government’s overthrow even if he does not actively seek it.

Israel’s strikes have also questioned other talks between the United States and Iran for a nuclear agreement before they meet on Sunday in Oman. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman called for other nuclear talks with the United States “meaningless” after Israeli campaign strikes, state television said.

“The United States has done a work that has rendered meaningless talks,” said Esmail Baghaei. He added that Israel had adopted all the red lines of Iran by committing a “criminal act” through his strikes.

However, he ceased to say that the talks were canceled. The Mizan press agency, led by the Iranian judiciary, quoted it as saying: “It is still not clear what we decide on Sunday talks.”

Iranian missiles strike Israel

The supreme chief of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Friday in a recorded message: “We do not allow them to escape safely from this great crime they have committed.”

Iran launched missile waves in Israel on Friday evening and early Saturday. The Iranians woke up on Saturday on state television broadcasting repeated clips of strikes on Israel, as well as videos of people encouraging and distributing candy. The Israeli army said that more drones had been intercepted near the Dead Sea early on Saturday.

A hospital in Tel Aviv treated seven people injured in the second Iranian dam, all except one suffering from slight injuries. Israel’s fire and rescue services said they had been injured when a projectile hit a building in the city. A spokesperson for Beilinson Hospital said that a woman was killed.

A few hours later, an Iranian missile struck near houses in the central Israeli city of Rishon Lezion, killing two other people and injuring 19, according to the Israeli paramedical service Magen David Adom. Israel’s fire and rescue service said four houses were seriously damaged.

Meanwhile, the sound of Iranian air explosions and systems firing on targets resonated in the center of Tehran shortly after midnight on Saturday. A journalist by Associated Press could hear air raid sirens near their home. The Iranian semi-official Tasnim news agency reported a fire at Tehran Mehrabad International Airport. A video published on X, formerly Twitter, has shown a chronicle of smoke and flames which amounts to what the point of sale has said to be the airport.

The Israeli army said that it had gone nights on dozens of targets, including air defenses, “in the Tehran region”.

The paramedical services of Israel said that 34 people had been injured in the dam in the Tel Aviv region, including a woman trapped under rubble. In Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, an AP journalist saw burned cars and at least three damaged houses, one of which was almost entirely torn off.

Residents of an Israeli central city which was struck on Friday evening told the AP that the explosion was so powerful that it rocked their
Open shelter door.

“We thought, that’s all, the house left, and in fact half the house had disappeared, it collapsed,” said Moshe Shani.

The American air defense systems in the region helped to shoot Iranian missiles, said an American official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the measures.

The latest attacks fear a total war

The current air strikes in Israel and the reprisals of Iran have raised concerns concerning the total war between countries and propelled the region, already on board, in even greater upheavals.

Pays in the region have condemned the attack on Israel, while leaders around the world called for immediate de -escalation on both sides.

Israel has long threatened such a strike, and successive American administrations have sought to prevent it, fearing that he was putting on a broader conflict through the Middle East and may be ineffective to destroy the dispersed and hardened nuclear program of Iran.

But after a confluence of developments launched by the attacks of October 7, 2023, as well as the re -election of American president Donald Trump, Israel finally followed his threats. Netanyahu said the United States had been informed before the attack.

On Thursday, Iran was censored by the UN atomic guard dog not to comply with the obligations intended to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon.

The cross fires between Israel and Iran have disrupted the East-West journey through the Middle East, a key global aviation route. But Petra’s information agent, managed by Jordan’s state, said the country would reopen his airspace to civil aircraft at 7:30 am on Saturday, reporting that there is no immediate danger. The Government of Lebanon also said on Saturday that it reopened its airspace.

The section above the Natanz installation floor has struck

Among the main sites which attacked that Israel was the main establishment of nuclear enrichment of Iran in Natanz, where black smoke could be seen in the air. He also seemed to strike a second and smaller nuclear enrichment installation in Fordo, about 100 kilometers south-east of Tehran, according to an Iranian media close to the government who said he had heard explosions nearby.

Israel said that he had also struck a nuclear research installation in Isfahan and that he had destroyed dozens of radar installations and air -air missile launchers in western Iran. Iran confirmed the strike in Isfahan.

The UN nuclear chief, Rafael Grossi, told the Security Council that the section above the ground of the Natanz installation had been destroyed.

The main underground centrifuge did not seem to have been affected, but the loss of power could have damaged the infrastructure there, he said.

Netanyahu said the attack had been for months and was scheduled for April before being postponed.

The Mossad of Israel’s spying agency positioned explosive drones and precision weapons in advance inside Iran and used them to target the Iranian air defenses and missile launchers near Tehran, according to two security officials who spoke under the cover of anonymity.

It was not possible to corroborate these claims independently.

In the past year, Israel has targeted Iran’s air defenses, hitting a radar system for an air defense battery in Russian manufacturing in April 2024 and missile and manufacturing surface -in -air missiles in October.

The first wave of strikes gave Israel a “important freedom of movement” in Iranian sky, paving the way for new attacks, according to an Israeli military official who spoke under the cover of anonymity because he was not allowed to discuss the details of the attack with the media.

The official said that Israel was prepared for an operation that could last up to two weeks, but that there was no firm calendar.

Among the people killed were three of the main Iranian military leaders:

• Whoever supervised all the armed forces, General Mohammad Bagheri.
• Whoever led the Revolutionary’s paramilitary guard, General Hossein Salami.
• The head of the goalkeeper’s ballistic missile program, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh.

Two of the deputies of Bagheri were also killed, confirmed Iran on Saturday: General Gholamreza Mehrabi, the deputy for the intelligence of the general staff of the armed forces, and General Mehdi Rabbani, the deputy for operations.

Trump urged Iran on Friday to conclude an agreement with the United States on its nuclear program, warning its social platform of truth that Israel’s attacks “will only get worse”.

“Iran must conclude an agreement, before it remains.”